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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1915
Page
4
February 19, 1915 reports a sale involving Roland Ghina at Wet John H Bunton Jr in Indiana with the details readable in the fragment.
The record notes pig sale results with prices and buyers in Urbana and Idaho Falls, plus premiums won by John H. Bunton Jr. and C. Andrews. Local social notes report visits and travel of Edith Pickering, Mrs. Brewer, and the Roderick family, along with teaching changes at Rowe Hill School and other community tidbits.
Phil Dawson's daughters suffer a severe La Grippe attack as revival meetings led by Rev. Hinkle and Mrs. R A Savage proceed. Mrs. Savage visits Olin Savage and family in Steele City. George Slaughter visits relatives in Town and Missouri. Miss Delora Church of Fairbury and Miss Vonny Leopold visit grandparents I E Beach and wife Sunday.
Reading of fragmented social notes shows Gladys Majors improving at writing and multiple visits among residents. Mentions Eva Shepherd visiting Mr and Mrs Fred Kerns, dinner with George Cook and Chas, Mrs John Swett at Harriet Anderson’s home, and W D Shepherd with George Poffie Barg er in Fairbury on Saturday with others listed in brief.
A note from Ladies Home Journal recounts a tale of a Missouri resident who died with seventeen male heirs and three sons. The will divided property by halves thirds and ninths, but five heirs could not split the estate. To solve the puzzle the administrator added one of his own horses, making eighteen, then distributed nine to the eldest six to the next and two to the weakest, totaling seventeen and allowing a clean division.
More than 250 Protestant clergymen are serving in the French army as drafted or conscripted. The church reports churches disturbed and families broken up by the call to colors. Bishop Nudison leads European church affairs while Rev. Ernest UW. Bywasne sails from New York seeking to reach southeastern France parishes.
An English sergeant major, with experience in Great Britain, contends that Belgian and French campaigns show city-recruited regiments perform best on the battlefield due to their urban training. He notes German shell quantities affect civilians farther from big cities, and Mayor Gaynor comments on urban noise echoes, suggesting such sounds could become a war factor according to New York Press.
A fragmentary column quotes Harry Mestayer on film acting as a bore and the improvisational studio routine with cigarettes beer and a kissing scene. It shifts to military critics doubting the cavalry lance and noting experiments with a ball in base of the lance head for safer disablers.
The Plymouth News reports readers say they paid for a large paper and premium Christmas books that never arrived. Several buyers who could not afford the large issue feel they were stung by the scheme.
A travel note describes Servian army drums carried on small two wheeled carts drawn by trained dogs. Drummers march behind the carts while playing. Each regiment has two or three large drums though most have no full band.
Report of the condition notes resources liabilities and deposits for Steele Bank Nebraska as of February 16 1915. It lists loans overdrafts securities cash and other assets totaling 39621.85 and liabilities including capital stock surplus undivided profits and deposits with a 52000.00 bills payable and a 23964 state safety fund. The cashier H E Clapp attests to accuracy sworn before J C Evans on February 16 1915.
Arizona will seat Mrs. Frances Willard Munds in the senate marking a first for the state. Oregon also will welcome a woman in its legislature, with Miss Marian Towne of Jackson County elected to the lower chamber, reportedly the sole Democrat there. Colorado sees notable female candidacy with only two women advancing.
The report states 2 099 mountain lions have been killed in California since 1927 with 118 killed in the six months ending June 30. The state pays a bounty of 420 for each lion. The total cost of killing lions has been noted.
Unclear fragment describes a rich young man courting Mjgo Pthek and being stingy or frugal in conduct.
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